Topic: Exhilaration [David Jeremiah Ministry 19 July 2024 | Turning Point Ministries]
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Exhilaration
JULY 19, 2024
Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.
John 11:11
Recommended Reading: John 11:1-11
Alexander Polli, a skydiver and base jumper, was asked why he risked his life. “To be quite honest,” he said, “I am extremely scared of dying.” Sadly, Polli perished in 2016 while trying to soar through the French Alps in a flying suit. He was 31.1
When we know Christ as Savior, we can soar in life with no fear of dying. Yes, we want to challenge ourselves and occasionally pump our adrenaline. We like adventure. But we also know Jesus Christ is able to satisfy our inner craving for significance and excitement. We can say with Paul, “But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell. For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better” (Philippians 1:22-23).
When Jesus healed His friend Lazarus, He demonstrated His power over death. He said, “I am the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). There’s no exhilaration like knowing Him, and no security like knowing that He will certainly awaken all those who fall asleep in Christ.
Even death holds no terror because he is the Living One who has conquered death and holds it in his power.
Robert Mounce
- Cassandra Vinograd, “Alexander Polly, Wingsuite and BASE Jumping Pioneer, Dies in Crash,” NBC News, August 23, 2016.
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